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I modded it up. I'm a geek. We poke fun at ourselves to keep our egos in line.

No, really, you can grab almost any answer you want from data if you tweak the algorithm. Throw in some misplaced incentives for the geeks and the traders and voila! you have a flawed model telling you housing can only go up up UP!. Snake oil comes in many forms.




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